Chipping Campden
Chipping Campden is a small market community in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It is notable for its stylish terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. ("Chipping" is from Old English ceping, "a market, a market-place"; the same element is located in various other towns such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury and Chipping (currently High) Wycombe. A rich woollen trading centre in the center Ages, Chipping Campden delighted in the patronage of affluent wool sellers (see likewise woollen church), most significantly William Greville (d. 1401). Today it is a prominent Cotswold visitor location with old inns, hotels, professional shops as well as restaurants. The High Street is lined with honey-coloured limestone buildings, constructed from the smooth in your area quarried oolitic sedimentary rock known as Cotswold rock, as well as flaunts a wealth of great vernacular architecture. Much of the town centre is a Conservation Area which has assisted to preserve the initial structures. The town is the end factor of the Cotswold Way, a 102-mile Long-distance path. Chipping Campden has hosted its own Olimpick Games since 1612. The overall ward population taken at the 2011 census was 5,888.